Monday, September 22, 2008
Day 15
Hope you had a good weekend and a good Monday. Today we began watching "Vantage Point" in order to understand how different things can look based on who is telling the story. Give me an example of something in your life that you have viewed one way but that someone else in the situation with you might view another way.
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The other day, I was at my freind's house and it was clean-up time. I believed that the house needed to be cleaned up. Her dad thought the same thing. But, on the other hand, my friend thought that the house was the cleanest that it has been all month and so, therefore, it didn't need to be cleaned up. That is one example of something in my life that I viewed one way but someone else viewed differently. Another example is when my sister shoved me in the closet and thought that I deserved it. Well, I didn't think that it was appropriate for her to hurt me.
-Stephanie Zach
I went out to the movies this Saturday with a few friends. We ended up being a half hour late dropping one of my friends off. None of us thought it was going to be a big deal, but his mom basically blew up on him. She acted like him being late was the end of the world. He ended up getting his phone taken away that night. The rest of us were thought that was completely ridiculous. I personally thought his mom was being too strict.
in the past me and my friends have argued about some pretty dumb stuff. like for example, me and my friend up at zack were arguing about wether we should go home early. he wanted to go home and do home work, but i wanted to stay late and snowboard. the problem was i was his ride home. we argued back and forth cumming up with diferent reasons why eachother was right. now that i think about it he was right because he had to do home work and it was late and i also had home work i just didnt want to do it. in the end i took him home so he could finish it, and i just relaxed and didnt do mine :P
Give me an example of something in your life that you have viewed one way but that someone else in the situation with you might view another way.
A few days ago my dad had asked me to cut the grass. I thought I would wait another day to do it because i was to lazy and tired to do it. I didnt think it was that big of a deal to wait another day, but it was. My dad came home and rip me a new one that day. I thought he was being an ass, but I guess if I told someone to do something and they didn't I would probally be angry too. Once I finally did it, he went back to normal. Same o'l nice dad.
Hmm... Vantage point was a very interesting movie i must say, through out the beginning when the president got shoot and to see it from many different veiws was very intence. it took me awhile to think about a situtaion where i have veiwed something differently from someone else then i suddenly realized that things happen like this everyday, no one thinks the same as another human beging and everyone has there own opinion. My example would be my Boyfriend Aaron for instence, He thinks its compleatly necessary to be friends with the opposet sex and to be honest it gets to me, not because the fact hes friends with females its just they are all attractive in my eyes and im sure in his. I get very offended and feel threatended by the realationship he has with his female friends and i take their friendship in the wrong way, when he clearly knows they are just friends. I have come to realize that hes with me for a reason and they are just buddies to him. Im very excited to see how vantage point ends and i cant wait to write more about this topic
-Have a good night Marc
Love,
Lyns
My brother and I were playing Fight Night (boxing game) yesterday and he beat me. He won the fight because he hit me with mostly "haymakers". Those are essentially knock-out punch's. Anyway I got pissed off and looked at the stats and I atleast tripled him in every area but that. In my point of veiw I should have won that fight. But in the end, my brother did beat me. We agreed after hours of arguing...
Me and my dad have different views on what time to be home by. I think that i should be able to be out till 10 or 11 on school nights. My dad thinks i should be home by 9. I dont understand why. If i have all my homework done and am goin to sit at home the rest of the night anyways whats the difference? I think i am responsible enough to stay out later. My dad thinks otherwise.
Give me an example of something in your life that you have viewed one way but that someone else in the situation with you might view another way.
A good example for me is when me and my dad don't agree on something. like when its time to go to bed. he thinks i should go to bed at 9. But i think i should be able to stay up until i get tired. i know he has his own reasons why. i also have my own reasons why. i know that if I'm not tired I will just lay in my room and listen to my ipod. He thinks i should be in bed so i can get up in the morning. i see why but we just see this situations in different ways.
I like this question because there are so many different things that happen in our lives that eveyone views different. Like for example when i get in a fight with a friend they see it different from what i do. My mom when she want me to do chores i dont want to do them and i think i do a lot aroun the house but to her i dont is also a good example. This right now can also be viewed different because i good think this is good and others could think this is bad. I guess you can tell eveything from more them one view.
I think everything that happens in our daily lives, happen the way they do because every single person involved has a different point of view as to what is actually happening. In your mind you always think that the way you are thinking, is the right way. But we forget to think that every person is thinking for themselves in a different way. It is very ironic that this is the question today, because I actually just had an incident that fits in perfectly with the question. At cheerleading we had a little "incident" that a girl on my team says that she thinks I did something to her on purpose when I knew in my head it was a joke, and we were both laughing about it. Seeing that body language I just figured that she thought it was a joke and funny too. But turned out that she didn't think it was funny and ended up accusing me of something that completely went through my mind, and was seen through my eyes in a whole nother perspective. But I guess it just goes to show, that we need so stop and think about other peoples points of views on situations, because sometimes what we think, isn't always exactly what is right.
Well i do believe that everyday, you have a different point of view from everyone else. Just by the way you live your life. Something that comes to mind would probably be an argument that you can have between a friend. They have a totally different view on what is really happening. Maybe if we viewed alot of things in the eyes of another, it would make more scense, for where they are coming from. It really changes the way you would view what really happened. That is probably one example that i could have different points of view.
"Vantage Point" is relatable from all perspectives, which is probably what makes it so intresting. As every other Highschool kid can simpithy with, every story has two sides. Two totally, and utterly different sides varying from person to person. Currently, it is something I am struggling with at this very moment,unfortunatly. Lately in my life some of my "best friends" who I had considered for a long time more of my family then my blood family, haven't been intrested in confronting me face to face about what really happend from my "Vantage Point". I am absolutely postive that at any time any one of them would have confronted me that would have completly understood my side of the story, realizing it's not always they way the story may seem. Yet, time and time again I feel betrayed and unheard. People will always talk, this is a part of life. I have learned to move on and take note now of who is truely trustworthly and who is not. Point of view is important through all stages of life, not just the typical Highschool drama.
One thing I view differently is that my parents aren’t that strict when it comes to thing things. Some people view it like I have really cool parents. I never really thought of it till my friend couldn’t go out late out late and I could. That made me think that they have strict parents. But they might think it differently too. That is why I think I have it easily sometime. So in many cases people think differently about a lot of things.
- Christina Newman
At the beginning of summer, I was involved in a car accident in which I was sideswiped by a Dodge Charger. The lady that hit was not ticketed, but I was. Apparently I made an illegal turn even though the other lady was going way over the speed limit. However she may have viewed it as my fault 100% and saw that she was going the speed limit. She may have seen it as that I turned in front of her with no time for her to slow down. I saw it as her fault seeing that she had plenty of time to stop. I saw it that she wouldn't have hit me if she had been going the speed limit. She saw it that she wouldn't have hit me if I hadn't had turned.
-Dick Nehring
One of the things in my life were it was viewed differently when I got into a crash on my ATV. What happened was on a brige waiting to go with my atv I stoped and waited to go. I had looked around a saw nothing there were weeds in the way so I didnt see him comming. When I pulled out my cousin was comming straight at me going way to fast. I had very little time to react so I pulled forward but he still hit me. This was viewed differently by my cousin says it was my fault because I could have pulled forward and should have waited longer. I said that I had waited long enough and that it was his fault because it never would of happened if he never would have gone so fast. This was one of the things in my life viewed differently.
Oh, that's an easy one. My parents and I experience this phenomenon every day. My mother thinks that I should have to clean the litter, but I know that it's fine without a cleaning for another day or so. No, I'm absolutely serious about this. Or, better yet, my father and I argue at the shop all the time. I think that the BMW we're working on doesn't start because the ignition packs' fuse is blown, he thinks that the wire is bad because there's voltage. Needless to say, I'm right.
While the purpose of this post is totally lost with the above paragraph, a more serious example is between my much-more religious friend, and my irreligious self. While we respect each others', we formed our own conclusions about God and we fight about it in a (usually) friendly way. She views that there's definitive proof due to the Bible, while I think that anyone can write a book that says A, B and C happened because X and Y made it so. Needless to say, this gets us nowhere. This is the best example I can think of.
Stephen manvydas:
A few months ago, almost a year, i broke my ankle. i was on a hailbail with my friends and a few other random people. we were all jumping around and having fun until my friend pushed me. As i fell i saw a little kid fall right under me, i knew that i had to get my self out from above him. doing this caused me to break my ankle. from my view i could either injure to kid, or break my ankle. now, from my friends point of view, he thought that i had just fallen like many times before, nothing special. from what he saw nothing bad had happened. as i layed on the ground i saw people walk by and they had an even different "vantage point" they didnt see the full story so they thought that i was just lying on the ground. this shows how having a diferent point of view can change the whole story.
Today we started to wacth the moive vantage point I don't like this moive I think it is dumb that they keep rewinding to the begining. Now something that has happened to me that has been seen in a different veiw to another person is. When my mom wanted me to go to my cousins graduation party. I really didn't want to go but she like u have to go and she made a really big deal out of it. I don't know why but I had to go. So I just stoped argueing with her and I just went to make her happy.
something in my life thati view one way and someone else views another is how clean my room is. i happen to find my room very neet and orderly. while on the otherhand my parents say that its a mess. i put things in the place where hey are for a reason so that i wont loose them. my parents dont agree. when they finally make me put everything away then i forget where things are and loose them. this is one thing that i have a different view on than someone else.
Tom Hall
Wow where do I begin on this one. There has been alot of times when I have thought one thing and someone elce has thought another. Lets bring in the situation from when me and my best friend had a hick up over a girl situation. yet this guy thought in this situation it would be okay to talk to my girlfriend everyday and figured I wouldnt care. Yea right come on this guy didnt know anything about me. Also there have been many times of miscommunication from when me and my friends have said somthing and it has either gone too far or isnt worth there time.
Scott Roteman
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